Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.
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I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.
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... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
